Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] memblock: fix min_low_pfn/max_low_pfn build errors

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On 8/29/20 6:04 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 05:01:39PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Export min_low_pfn & max_low_pfn in mm/memblock.c to fix build errors
>> on arch/microblaze/ and arch/ia64/: (e.g.)
> 
> Please don't. This would give driver developers a wrong impression that
> these variables can be used to query memory boundaries, but this is not
> the case, at least not on all architectures.
> 
> I would prefer fixing it up locally for microblaze and ia64.

I did that.
and that's why this is labeled as an ALTERNATE PATCH.


thanks.
-- 
~Randy




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